Word: forested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contender for Treasury or Defense . . . Informal but hard-driving chairman of Bendix Corp., Michigan-based conglomerate in auto parts, forest products, other fields (sales: $3 billion) . . . Age 50 . . . Born in Berlin, fled Nazis with family to China, arrived in U.S. at 21 in 1947 with $60 in pocket; worked way through University of California, making Phi Beta Kappa; got Ph.D. in economics at Princeton and taught there . . . Was U.S. negotiator in the Kennedy Round trade talks in the 1960s (said one colleague approvingly: "The Europeans thought he was too tough") . . . Other business executives say he is good at delegating authority...
...McGraw-Hill. $39.95. This dizzying book hurls the reader around the world and across the centuries in pursuit of the common roots of mankind's myths. Here is Himbui the Hummingbird, the fire bringer of Peru's Jivaro Indians, cheek by jowl with Prometheus. Here is Polynesian Forest God Tanemahuta forcibly separating Father Sky from Mother Earth. Visions of heavens and hells are shared by Aztec and Hindu, Algonquin and Buddhist. This sweeping survey of human imagination is buttressed by 1,300 illustrations, excellent maps, and essays by Scholars Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade...
...entomologist at the U.S. Forest Service's research labs in Corvallis, Daterman has been battling the Douglas-fir tussock moth, a major pest to the lumber industry in the Far West. In their larval stage, the voracious little insects can destroy a whole stand of valuable fir trees. For the past two years, Daterman and his colleagues at the Forest Service have been setting out forest traps baited with a man-made duplicate of the female moth's chemical sex-attractant pheromone. The object: to lure males, who can sniff out a mere trace of the powerful stuff...
Early Warning. At present the Forest Service is deploying the chemical traps only as an early warning system to measure any sharp increase in the moths' population, which occurs about once a decade. But it is also considering stronger measures: spraying whole forests of firs with the love potion, so confusing the males that they will be unable to locate any females to mate with. Explains Daterman: "It's analogous to putting a male human into a room with his girl friend, turning out the lights and then spraying her perfume all over the place...
...that Van Haefton knows foreign realty, he plans to appeal to foreign buyers. He hopes eventually to open a branch office in Europe. What German industrialists, Greek shipowners and perhaps oil sheiks want, he believes, might just be a trout farm nestling in California's Lassen National Forest, a fly-in ranch in lush green Montana or a splendid 240-acre swamp in Florida...